Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour calls the firestorm of controversy over the omission of slavery from Virginia's proclamation on Confederate History Month 'just a nit.'
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Mississippi's governor defended the omission of slavery from a Virgina Confederate History Month proclamation, saying the oversight meant "diddly." Asked on CNN if Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's failure to mention slavery was a mistake, Republican Gov. Haley Barbour responded: "I don't think so. It's trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn't amount to diddly." He called the firestorm of controversy raised by the omission "just a nit." McDonnell has apologized for leaving slavery out of the proclamation.

The Democratic National Committee immediately issued a statement blasting Barbour for "defending the indefensible." To “say that the systematic condemnation of millions to bondage is ‘not significant,’ or that the tearing apart of families and the selling of human beings ‘doesn't amount to diddly’ is outrageous," said the statement.

Someone should remind the douchebag who won the war 150 years ago. The North whipped your asses, accept it, accept the dictates of your victors, and get over yourself. Douchebag. And this is coming from someone that detests the left as much as the right ...